Remote sleep and reboot

I’m running 10 MacMinis in an exhibition.
For more control I want a central computer, running a MAX patch. It should be able to remotely restart them and put them to sleep, individually. Can MAX do such a thing?

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> Hi everyone!
>
> I’m running 10 MacMinis in an exhibition.
> For more control I want to build a central computer, running a MAX
> patch. It should be able to remotely restart them and put them to
> sleep, individually. Can MAX do such a thing?
>
> greets
> Woody

Via udpsend and udpreceive I sent the Macbook a "sleep" message on its correct host and port, which got routed to the aka.power object. And so it went to sleep…
Very nice, and very simple. But now, how do I wake it up using MAX?

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> Interesting.
> I just hooked my Macbook to my PC using a basic switch.
> Then I installed the aka.power external (http://www.iamas.ac.jp/
> ~aka/max/#aka_power) on my MacBook.
>
> Via udpsend and udpreceive I sent the Macbook a "sleep" message on
> its correct host and port, which got routed to the aka.power
> object. And so it went to sleep…
> Very nice, and very simple. But now, how do I wake it up using MAX?

You can wake another sleeping Mac (maybe PC too) up with that patch.
(I made spelling mistakes. sorry)

Connect two computers to LAN ( with Ehternet cables ).
Change the message to a sleeping computer’s MAC address ( of Ethernet
chip ).
MAC address is normally expressed in a hexadecimal with colon ( ex.
00:0a:95:c4:a9:56 ) but you have to express it in a decimal and comma
( ex. 0, 10, 149, 196, 169, 86 ) in this patch.
And click the button.

The broadcast address 255.255.255.255 will work but it’s better to
change it according to your subnet address. Don’t change the port
number 6.